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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

RC at SAPPA Round 2, 2012

Yesterday,
Sunday the 29th of April, was SAPPA Round 2 at Skirmish SA in
Strathalbyn South Australia. This year,
SAPPA is running 3 man events to begin rebuilding the enthusiasm of the 5 man
events in the past. We are slowly but
surely gathering momentum as more and more players and teams come out. This past weekend there were 7 teams competing
in the open division. I must have been excited for this
event because it was clearly posted that the gates opened at 8, and I was
parked at the gates at 7.

RC
struggled to field a team this round for a number of reasons. Some players are saving up for the interstate
trip to PAVS round 3 which takes place a week afterwards. Some players play for RC but also have teams
they’ve developed over the years. And
quite simply, some players are off the grid at the moment… we miss you Jas and
Wags. So this round we picked up a
player by the name of Zak. Zak has
played heaps of woodsball, and participated in his first speedball/tournament
day at SAPPA round 1. Scout and I
(Wimpy) filled out the rest of the three man squad.

Early on,
we got beat down pretty bad. We hadn’t
really hooked up as a team, and our opening games were against some of the
stronger teams of the day. I think our
first two teams we played ended up taking 1st and 2nd
place in the end. After each game, we
dusted ourselves off and talked about what we did well. In the following games we’d managed to pull
some draws as the games were limited to just two minutes. We played aggressively, but put the pressure
on the opposition to win the games. We
actually maxed one team, though I couldn’t tell you how it all came to be
because Scout and Zak seemed to run the field while I was pinned down in the
back. All of a sudden the paint stopped
raining, I picked my head up and Scout and Zak were all the way up the
field.

As I said,
we got smashed early on, but as we found our game, we started winning games and
forcing draws. My favourite game of the
day was against James, Mark and Peter. These
guys are competitive players, and James especially knows I’ve got nothing but
love and respect for him (I’m doing my best to scalp him). Anyway, off the break I took our back right
laydown, Scout was back center and Zak took a left 30 stand up. They were in back center, center 30 dorrito
and mirrored with Zak in left 30. After
about 30 seconds of play, Zak got pinched out and we were down 2 vs 3. In the flurry of activity I heard the other
team call, “G1, Back Center and Back Left.”
Scout seemed to have the same idea as I did, “Let’s get somewhere other
than Back Center and Back Left.” We both
bumped and I made it to a small 30 bunker.
Only Peter in Back Center saw me move up, but I think I snapped him on
his shoulder before he was able to relay the bump. I was then able to wrap and gog Mark out of
the 30 dorito, to which he replied, “Where the @#$ did that come from?” James pushed hard up the tape and won a quick
snap battle with Mark as I was trying to push to the middle of the field. James saw my move and we immediately snapped
each other out at the exact same time.
It was a great game for both teams, and we took a moment to congratulate
each other and share some love. There’s
split screen footage of this game at the end of the video posted below. It doesn’t show the full field, but you get
the idea.

At the end
of the day, South Syndicate took 1st, Kaoz took 2nd and
Hard Luck took 3rd. Everyone
played well and played hard including The Dishonored who are new to the
tournament scene. RC played well
throughout the day, we won a few games, drew a few games and made teams work
hard for their wins. In the end we
finished last, which is a tough one to swallow.
But we are building our game and filling our ranks. At the end of the day the reffs; Gaz, Ed and Richard, were generous
to offer me the ‘Best and Fairest” trophy. I really appreciated that and it took it’s place
on the shelf with the few other trophies I’ve collected in my time here in Aus.

Anyway,
despite our losses it was a great day of paintball. Scout was solid and is quickly adapting to
the speedball genre. Zak played
aggressively and also adapted well to the style of play. Well done guys, thanks for playing with
me. Next week Ed, Troy, Scout, Rob and I
head out to Victoria for PAVS round 3. I’ll
keep you posted on that. Meantime, check
out the video below. It’s a few clips
from the day which lead into a full split screen RC game.